James Branch Cabell Quotes
It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation.James Branch Cabell
Quotes to Explore
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
Gavin MacLeod -
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe -
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
Hannah Storm -
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Adam McKay -
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama -
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead -
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Oscar Peterson -
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
Ian Mckellen
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild -
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson -
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
Zooey Deschanel -
The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
Irene Joliot-Curie -
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
Daniel Craig
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
William Penn -
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway -
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf -
Cuando busco mi existencia, no la busco en mí.
Antonio Porchia -
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Michael Caine -
It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation.
James Branch Cabell